Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens

[Joseph “Millennium Man”]

Veljko wrote: "Finished!
No execution ;-)

Surprisingly funny at parts. The story... bah. Usual Dickens... too many coincidences. It's like there are ten people in all of England and they all are related somehow...."

Obvious yet I didn't think of it. It is kind of a stretch for the plot.

[Mill]

I'll start after finishing my Chinese exam this Thursday. This will be the first Dicken's work I read. Really looking forward to it!

[Hannah]

Gah! I officially failed at reading this this month. I'd rather not be executed though, if you don't mind.
Hope everyone who read it enjoyed it :)

[Ken]

Hannah, shame!! You missed out. I LOVE this book. Keep it on your to-read list.

[Hannah]

I will definitely get round to reading it soon. At least I'm completely prepared for this month's group read ;)
(Definitely didn't cheat).

[Heather L]

Finished reading this last week, but did not have time then to skim through all of the comments. I intentionally stayed away from the discussion before finishing for fear of spoilers, and at least one person did post a spoiler without using the "spoiler" html tag, so glad I did not see that before getting to that chapter of the book.

Anyway, though it took me more than a week to finish, I did enjoy it. Though I've never read the book before, the first half of the story was familiar. I have vague memories of watching a movie version on TV when we were kids, but not sure that had anything to do with it. It's possble we read an abridged or play version of some scenes in one of the Weekly Reader magazines in elementary or middle school.

A few random comments:

Hannah: The Muppet’s Christmas Carol is one of my favorite renditions of that story, so it totally counts! ☺

Joseph: Oliver Twisted... You kill me, really. *Snicker* Sadly, I have no trouble imagining such a treatment of the book, considering what they have done to other classics. *shudders*

Veljko: I too thought some plot twists, particularly the last few chapters a bit too coincidental. (view spoiler)[Especially the part where Rose Maylie ends up being Oliver’s aunt. Or Sikes accidentally hanging himself. (hide spoiler)]

Hopefully I can get Frankenstein done before the end of the month this time--especially seeing as it it is quite a bit shorter than OT.

[Joseph “Millennium Man”]

Heather L wrote: "Finished reading this last week, but did not have time then to skim through all of the comments. I intentionally stayed away from the discussion before finishing for fear of spoilers, and at least ..." The Frankenstein thread

I see the book is rated 5 stars by almost all posting so I would assume already been read. aka Spoiler alert!

[Heather L]

Joseph: not everyone was done reading the book at the point of the unmarked "spoiler" on page one of this discussion to which I referred in paragraph one of my post, and I don't believe all those who come to this discussion late are necessarily done with the book, either. Never assume! Or are you not familiar with that saying? ;)

[John]

I think people make too big of a deal out of spoilers (I am not trying to be argumentative). If a comment seems to begin to be a 'spoiler', just stop reading it? And go on to the next. I have never read a comment, even a spoiler, that actually spoiled the book I was reading.

I also want to mention that I have a quiz on Oliver Twist that some might find fun; here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/189...